5,773 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
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Overall Play: The Broken Record Divine Intervention Little One Maybe Tomorrow Night of the Living Overall Musical: The Crack in the Ceiling Far From Canterbury Popesical Solo Performance: bu…
An informal memorial service will be held in Central Park Monday afternoon for Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, the youngest actor and first African-American to portray Jean Valjean in Les Miserables…
Deaf West’s revival of “Spring Awakening” is the only Broadway show opening in September. Other New York theater that looks promising this month: Desire, an evening of play…
On Christmas Eve, Sarah and her new boyfriend Sam are enjoying each other's company, engaging in a philosophical debate about the nature of suffering, when there is a knock on the door; Sara…
Sherie Rene Scott's new play at Second Stage Theater, about an actress teaching a class of murderers at a men's prison, recalls in at least one unfortunate way her Second Stage show of half …
Below are a list of 18 shows scheduled to open on Broadway from September 2015 to January, 2016, organized chronologically by opening date. Â Pick the one that most excites you. For inform…
"Love and Money," A.R. Gurney's latest comedy about WASPs, is as deep as dust, and no more solid, but as dust goes, it’s a fine light powder, ground by a craftsman who's been at it …
#Ham4Ham, the name for the five-minute performances during the lottery drawings for the Broadway musical Hamilton, began last month with Lin-Manuel Miranda rapping, and roping in other cast …
The horrific future conjured in "Mercury Fur" " a world piled high with atrocities ranging from the killing of zoo animals to random decapitations to child torture " is clearly meant to shoc…
When she was a child, says Arella, a Native American character in the play "Informed Consent," "I'd hear about, 'the white man did this and the white man did that.' I thought there was one w…
After 19 years of the New York International Fringe Festival, which runs this year until August 30, certain Rules for Fringing have emerged (or are they just habits?) 1. First, see shows you…
Megan McGinnis (Les Miz, Beauty and the Beast, etc.) sings “The Secret of Happiness,” and she and Paul Alexander Nolan (Once, the best thing about Dr. Zhivago) sing “Color …
The fifth Broadway production of The King and I, has a new king — Jose LLana, who returned last month to the musical where he made his Broadway debut 19 years ago, at age 19, as the…
Deaf West Theater’s acclaimed production of “Spring Awakening,” a musical about lost and longing teenagers, is coming to Broadway in September, starring Marlee Matlin, Camr…
Why did Bernadette Peters sing an entire number from “Dames at Sea” to a dog at this year’s Broadway Barks? It was the first musical in which she starred on a New York stag…
Jackie Hoffman sings “Shy” from Once Upon A Mattress” at the final Broadway in Bryant Park concert of 2015. She will play the role of Princess Winnifred the Woebegone in th…
The 19th annual New York International Fringe Festival runs Friday, August 14h through Sunday, August 30th, 2015, with some 75,000 theatergoers expected for about 185 shows. For more a…
A couple visits a dark, possibly haunted bed and breakfast in Gettysburg, Pa. in "John," an exquisitely acted puzzle of a play that features some familiar TV faces — Georgia Engel (Geo…
When Hamilton opened on Broadway, there were fireworks " literal fireworks, courtesy of the musical's producers, but also an over-the-top critical response, including by me. The hoopla over …
“Allegiance” cast members Telly Leung (holding a fan made out of his face, above) and Elena Wang sang two songs from the musical at the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert.…
When Hamilton opened Off-Broadway in February, I called it groundbreaking and breathtaking " and I was trying not to gush. Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical about the life and times o…
When Hamilton opened Off-Broadway in February, I called it groundbreaking and breathtaking " and I was trying not to gush. Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical about the life and times of th…
Hamilton opens on Thursday, the only Broadway opening among the new shows of August, Interest in the musical goes beyond the usual theater crowd — having already roped in leading…
What does it say that, on the day that Laura Benanti was born, the number one song was Bad Girls, and the number one movie was Dracula? Probably nothing, but thanks to a #1 song database, an…
